What do you do with the contents of your vacuum cleaner bag/canister? Obviously you don’t keep it and put it into specimen jars to admire later unless you’re a weirdo, but seriously, what do you do with it?
Do you throw it in the trash? Add it to your compost pile? Toss it out back outside where {most} of it came from?
Here me out.
For the past 20+ years when it comes time to empty the canister I empty the vacuum canister outside.
Usually into the garden {but sometimes over the fence} because the way I see it, things like dog hair, dirt, dust bunnies and wool fibers belong OUTSIDE.
Not sitting in a plastic bag in a landfill somewhere that will take 10 million years to degrade. This drives my husband BONKERS. And I have no idea why.
He thinks it’s absolutely strange that I send our dust back to nature. If I happen to vacuum up glitter or something that does not belong in nature, I will in fact empty the canister into the trash.
But for the most part, he thinks I’m weird and is worried the neighbors will see me out there emptying the canister into the garden and in turn think that he’s married to a nutter.
Spoiler alert… I do the same thing with my dryer lint. 🙂
Who knows. Maybe I’m the crazy one.
How about YOU? What do you do with YOUR vacuum dust and dryer lint? I need to know.
~Mavis
Tracey says
good morning!! pro “throw it in the side yard” here. I love it when I find a birds nest with identifiable detritus from my craziness…
Mavis Butterfield says
That has happened to me too. The birds love the little bits of string.
Jeanine says
Most of the time the vacuum dust is in a paper vacuum bag that I throw into the trash. The other small canister vacuum has no bag and goes outside. The dryer lint, I make firestarters and use cardboard egg cartons and old candles wax.
linda Noss says
I throw mine in the compost pile along with dryer lint. Carry on.